Saturday, October 22, 2005

Ten Years From Now

What will you be doing in ten years if you do not learn a skill?

Now is the time to start your professional education.

Here is a great article that applies to many areas of learning.

I use a rule of thumb that it takes six months to discover if a group or company is good to work with. It takes about two years to establish yourself in a new business. And here is Peter Norvig who claims it takes at least ten years to reach top notch expertise.

Of course if you change nothing, nothing is likely to change, for the better. If you do not want the next two years to be a repeat of the last two, change something.